anything anyone's looking forward to? (feb 2012 edition! ;)

[plonk420]

i'm hoping for cheap, 4 logical core, 17 watt Trinitys i can papertray farm up. also kepler to drop everyone's prices (and to give me a good, cheap, 2nd or 3rd from the bottom GPU for my 65 watt AMD desktop setup)

[Dirk Broer]

I think you can better combine Trinity with a AMD HD 76xx card (XCrossfire) instead of nVdia's GT 6xx Kepler (NixCrossfire)

[plonk420]

oh, i'm mainly interested in Trinity for HTPC (currently an underpowered-for-my-specific-video-playback-needs E-350) ... POSSIBLY main desktop (currently a 705e + geforce 9400gt). and definitely a replacement for my mom's Athlon 64 3000 (so that my babysis can game, too, since there's no OTHER way i can convince her to get a faster-than-baseline-gpu).

and Kepler for my gaming system and/or low end Kepler for desktop since a) nvidia says they're going to open a can of whoop-ass on AMD for very cheap and b) i've had 1, possibly 2 AMDs die. oh, and a minor point c) the demoscene seems to prefer nvidia, so it's good to have one of each in the household :D

but this is ONLY if Kepler IS that can of whoop ass and is way cheaper.

[Dirk Broer]

I have at present a A6-3500 Llano, combined with a HD 6670, that kicks ass in Moo! and Collatz as compared to my HD 4770, and especially my GTX 260.
The latter two however support double precision, which the "HD 6690 D2" lacks. As you need a CPU/APU anyway it is just the relatively low-priced HD 6670.

In the case of Trinity (say A10-5700) you need a relatively cheap HD 7670 for good performance.
If your mobo supports more GPUs you can stick a cheap Kepler (GT 640, but be sure to pick to correct version, there are three!) as well

[plonk420]

i just today realized the 7750+ has double FP precision. not sure who/what all that helps, but it SOUNDS useful. i'll probably hold off on choosing a GPU for DC, at least til more medical projects start utilizing it.

at least the Trinity GPU (and Llano, too, but if they've held off THIS long, why not wait til Trinity?) will let my sis play minecraft and Portal 2/other source games. hell, many games, period.

heh... at first i was horrified at Bulldozer's performance, but it "keeps up with" Intel at higher resolutions (1080p, 2560x1600), other than (LOL) some pretty big games like Civ 5, Skyrim, Starcraft II. other big games like the gorgeous BF3, Crysis 2, WoW, it's pretty much neck and neck. and it should definitely be ok in the more casual (but pretty) games area... now if only they could drop the 2 BDZ Unit prices... :D

(edit: sheesh, i'm doing so much name/title/codename dropping in this thread, it feels like i'm being a shill or SEO abuser -_-)

[Dirk Broer]

MilkyWay@home has FP double precision as a prerequisite. Bulldozer prices will drop as soon as Piledriver is available (and before that actually)

[plonk420]

ohhhh, haven't seen that chart, yet. i've only seen one 1/3 that size. interesting. also, 4.2ghz :D